Operation Astonia

The technological developments that assisted bombing, the impact of bombing on the German economy, the impact of bombing on the German civilian morale and also the effects on the German war effort all help explain why the Allied strategic bombing of Germany during the Second World War was significant to quite a far extent. Each of the following paragraphs will analyse the impacts of the Allied strategic bombing on different aspects of Germany and also what factors assisted the Allied bombing campaign in creating a significant impact on Germany during the Second World War.

Despite the allied bombing of Germany in WWII perhaps appearing to be significant, overall, it was only such to a limited extent. It is possible to analyse the extent to which the bombing was significant in four aspects: economic, morale, international relations and others theatres of war. The extent to which they were significant will be assessed against their respective pre-war expectations. Whilst each dimension are important, I am going to specifically focus on economic and moral because they were the main objectives of the Allies, and directly affected Germany.

Many people were baked alive in this raid. About 873 bombers were bombing the German city. Dresden did not have any military or industrial targets that opposing countries would have wanted to destroy; it became known as a terror bombing by the British because it was not a target. The raid caused many unwanted deaths and destroyed a small city. The casualties that occurred in these events would not have happened if it were not for the new and improved aircraft.

Nagasaki and Hiroshima were the cities that got bombed. And because of all these reasons america ended up winning the war also with the aid of allies. Yes innocent people were killed but it was necessary for stopping japan. Many lives were sacrificed and killed during and after the bombing at Pearl Harbor. Hopefully we don't repeat the past and get into another world war that could end in the extinction of the human

In 1945, two atomic bombs were dropped over Japan on Hiroshima and Nagasaki which resulted in thousands of civilian deaths and a detrimental impact on the environment.

On Friday, September 15th, Britain was bombed by a terrorist group in an underground train in London. As a result, 29 people were sent to the hospital for their injuries, but luckily the injuries were not life-threatening. Eight of those 29 people have been discharged from the hospital.

lives were ended as a result of this unnatural disaster, most of them civilian. The people

Fussel focuses on convincing the reader that the number of causalities would have been much greater had the Allies continued the war on the ground. He does this simply by evaluating loss of life in invasions before the bomb and providing the estimates of lives lost in a continued land war. Fussel reminds the reader, “On Okinawa, only weeks before Hiroshima, 123,000

Over half of the casualties were in Hiroshima Prefecture because many of the city functions were destroyed by the bomb dropped on August 6.

consistently shelled by thousands of rounds of indirect fire from different types of artillery pieces. The theory here was that by bombing the area the

The bomb immediately killed 80,000 people. In the book Unbroken it states “ A week after Louie left Omori sixteen square miles of the city and ten thousands of souls have been burned by the B-29”. All homes were gone burned to the grown in ashes and this all happened it a few minutes. In a few minutes a whole town could be gone and the reason is because an atomic bomb hit there. In the book Unbroken Louis describes the towns saying “Once grand cities were now black stains”. This is implying how there was nothing left of the towns and how it’s all ash. Many people also describe when the bomb hit and said “It just felt like a wave of heat and then it just turned to ash”. Three days after America dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima America dropped the second one on Nagasaki Killing an estimated of 40,000 people and the same thing happened a whole town was gone and incident lives were

On the 6th of August 1945 an American B-29 Bomber plane launched a dangerous atomic bomb called “Little Boy”, in the centre of the city of Hiroshima. The Bombs left 140,000 people dead and another ten thousand died later from the toxic radiation exposure.

the bulk of the destruction pertaining to innocent civilians. Three days later, the Americans repeated

Docks were wrecked and people were thrown off the docks when bombs hit them. All the damage that happened was devastating and there was lots and lots of smoke after the attack. The smoke lasted for a few days and could be seen from miles away.

On the 6th November 1945, a United States bomber flies over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The only cargo aboard that B-29 bomber was an atomic bomb waiting on its target. At 8.15am the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, taking 140,000 lives with it. Most of the 140,000 died instantly, horrifyingly the rest of the innocent civilians that were not in direct contact with the bomb died painful deaths in the four months following. They died from radiation sickness and different types of cancers.